Wk. 8 Practice Access Points

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PRACTICE -- ACCESS POINTS (assignment updated)

  • Read Chapter 4, "Access Points" Parts of this chapter are for information only. Pay particular attention to these sections, pp. 35-43, 54-55.

  • Read Tag of the Month http://www.follettsoftware.com/tagofthemonth.cfm
    • 100 Main Entry - Personal Name
    • 110 Main Entry - Corporate Name
    • 700 Added Entry - Personal Name
    • 710 Added Entry - Corporate Name
    • 711 Added Entry - Meeting Name
    • 740 Added Entry - Analytic Title

PRACTICE EXERCISE ONE
Catalog the following exercises: 4A, 4B, 4C, and 4D (pp. 57-61) in the system of your choice.
  • Look at the title page and verso and enter as much information into the MARC fields as you can.
  • After you have entered as much information as you can, find professionally done MARC records using any of the other copy cataloging sources I've listed in the wiki: Copy Cataloging Sources.

There are answers on pp. 139-141 as well -- just not in the MARC format.

PRACTICE EXERCISE TWO (For 2015: Turn this in on Bb)
Let's get started with some exercises that are not in the book.

POST TO BLACKBOARD questions that you have about the exercises.


EXAMPLES from the chapter:
MAIN ENTRY (AUTHOR): Author creator: 100 $a
  • 100 $a Pentlin, Floyd
  • 100 $d 1946- (in this case it is an open date, the person hasn't died yet -- thank goodness!)
    • For names of people include the dates (birth and death). Look it up if the dates are not obvious. It gives another bit of information for the person searching the record. This information is found in $d.

ADDED ENTRY: Other people responsible for the work: 7XX
  • 700 $a Pankhurst, E. Sylvia
  • 700 $d 1882-1960

Establishing Proper Forms for Headings/Access Points: Note the different ways names are entered in the record:
  • Form of Personal Names
    • 100 field lastname, firstname [e.g. Shakespeare, William]
    • 245 $c firstname lastname [e.g. William Shakespeare]
    • 7XX lastname, firstname [e.g. Shakespeare, William]

  • Analytic Titles [see p. 54, text]
    • 700 $a Aristotle $t Politics
    • 700 $a Aristotle $t Poetics
    • 700 $a Jowett, Benjamin $d 1817-1893 $e tr.
    • 700 $a Twining, Thomas $d 1735-1804 $e tr.
    • 740 $a Politics
    • 740 $a Poetics

  • Series Titles [see p. 55, text]
    • 490 $a New York Review Books classics

The following sections are for background information. We will not be working any further with these areas.
  • Form of Corporate Body Names
  • Forms of Geographic Names
  • Forms of Titles